Why don't larger devs give Wii U owners a chance through kickstarter or sites like it

[Cloudman]

DonFerrari said:

Cloudman said:

oniyide said:

and that game still flopped (the numbers here are overtracked) so surely you must understand why a 3rd party would not want to spend time and money to make an exclusive game with that low install base? Hell they wont do that for Xone and PS4 and those systems are actually selling, let alone do it for WIi U

While it did not sell so well, it currently stands as the best selling 3rd party game, and it was a launch game, so it was starting with no base. While 3rd parties wouldn`t like risk trying a new game vs an established base, the games they did released did not make much sense in the first place, I believe. So they sold poor, perhaps not that much of a surprise to most people. Releasing games already estblished on previous consoles onto a new console, especially ones that start on a later half of a series, doesn`t seem like a good, nor fair way to test the base.

So the best selling game on WiiU was an exclusive and it didn't cover the cost. And for sure if it was MP it would do even worse. So you yourself is justifying why no 3rd party should bother doing it.

So when one new exclusive game does 'poor' it's time to quit and move on? I sure wouldn't have high opinions of those parties if that was the case. Also, currently, the sales of Zombi U are at decent numbers, not far off from some of the bigger title games of this year. There is also suspision that Ubisoft is lying about the costs of Zombi U, not having the budget of a AAA game, but a smaller one. And from the looks of the game, it doesn't seem that demanding of a game either, with some issues around the game. But hey, it did too poor, along with the ports of other games, right? Time to call it quits then.